We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, February 17, 2012

Capitalism’s obscenities are unacceptable

Click here to access article by Peter Boyle from Green Left.

This is a brief article which illustrates why the One Percent love capitalism; and why they won't give it up easily in spite of the fact that it has caused so much social injustice, economic crises, wars and is now threatening the human race with extinction through catastrophic climate change.